Buckle



`WILLIAlld SHOVE,` OF ELIZABETHPORT, NEW JERSEY.

BUCKLE.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 11,090, dated June 13, 1854.

To all 'whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM SHovE, of Elizabethport, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Buckles; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this speciiication, in whichp Figure 1, is a face view of my improved buckle. Fig. 2, is an under view of the bottom of the buckle bow. Fig. 3, is a section of the bottom of the buckle bow, taken at the line, X, X, Fig. 1.`

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts invthe several ligures.

The nature of my invention consists 1n connecting the two ends of the buckle bow together, by means of a dove tail, and perfectly securing said dove tail, or preventing it from being disconnected or separating, by having the crue or end of the tongue which is secured aroundthe lower end or base of the bow, pass around and .clamp the dove tail, as will be hereafter fully described.

To enable others skilled in the art to fully understand and construct my invention, I will proceed to describe it.

A, Fig. 1, represents the bow of the buckle constructed of a single piece of wire, which is bent in any desired way into the usual form.

The base, or lower end of the bow is designated by (a), shown in all the figures, and the two ends of the wire are connected at this part of the bow by a dove tail, (b), shown more particularly in Fig. 2.

The dove tail (b), may be of any of the usual forms. the two ends of the wire of the bow, A, are

In Fig. 2, it will be seen that oblique, and a rectangular recess is cut in .one end, and the opposite end has a projection upon it which lits in the recess of the end above mentioned. Other forms of dove tail may be used, and answer equally well, such as the Z form etc.

By Vconnecting the ends of the wire together by means of the dove tail, the ends are prevented from being drawn apart in a direction lengthwise of the wire. But the ends may be separated laterally by the slightest pressure.

In order to prevent this, the tongue, B, shown in Figs. l and 3, has its lower end wound around the base, (ai), so as to inclose the dove tail. The tongue by this means, is not only secured to the bow, but also serves as a clamp to keep the dove tail properly bound.

The advantage of the above improvement is, that the bow is made equally as strong and durable as the soldered or brazed ones, and with much less expense.'

I am acquainted with the device of uniting the two ends of a 'buckle by bringing them together in bosses which are kept together by a corresponding cavity in the clue of the tongue and therefore I do not claim as new the broad device of uniting the two ends of the buckle by a joint which is kept closed by a peculiar tongue but What I do claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

Making' the union by a common dovetail joint which 'of itselfresists tension lengthwise and which requires only the common tongue to hold it in permanent connection.

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Witnesses:` O. DQMUNN,

J No. W. HAMILTON. 

